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Indian Peasant Women Speak Up
This Book Offers A Microcosm Of Women`S Life In Rural India, Being Based On A Case Study Of Peasant Women From Over 40 Villages In Maharashtra Who Have Articulated Their Experiences Of Being Oppressed In A Male-Dominated Society.
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South Asian Folklore
With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.
Stonemill and Bhakti
This Book Is The First Attempt At A Systematic Cultural-Anthropological Study Of The Stonemill Tradition The Grinding Of The Peasant Women Who Singing For Ages On Their Hand-Mills Have Articulated Tradition In Their Work-Songs.
Women's Lifeworlds
Women's Lifeworlds explores the diversity and complexity of women's perceptions and reactions to their own 'lifeworlds' in their own words. Examining the changing meaning of 'place' in women's lives over time and across space, this book questions how women face, negotiate and shape the social space of their environment. Engaging personal narratives are presented by fifteen women of various age groups, from different cultural, religious, social and geographical backgrounds, from Mexican politician, Muslim psychiatrist, Finnish housewife to Indian guru and African rural woman. Writing about the lives of their grandmothers, mothers, themselves, their daughters or other close female relatives, the authors of these life narratives cross generational and cultural divides and share perceptions with each other. This unique inter-generational approach provides an engaging challenge to the generalised assumptions of how women in various historical and cultural contexts feel about womanhood, life, society, culture and religion.
Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society
This volume, a companion to Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion (SUNY Press, 1996), approaches more closely the realities of women's lives. Using historical documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and photographs, interviews, and conversations from the twentieth, the book constructs images of the conditions of women's lives in the modern state and traditional region of Maharashtra over the past three hundred years. The authors search for the ideas, understandings, and judgments that have shaped those conditions, for the conscious and unconscious images that have made women's lives what they have been. The contributors examine ways femininity and the power...
Sound and Communication
In Hindu India both orality and sonality have enjoyed great cultural significance since earliest times. They have a distinct influence on how people approach texts. The importance of sound and its perception has led to rites, models of cosmic order, and abstract formulas. Sound serves both to stimulate religious feelings and to give them a sensory form. Starting from the perception and interpretation of sound, the authors chart an unorthodox cultural history of India, turning their attention to an important, but often neglected aspect of daily religious life. They provide a stimulating contribution to the study of cultural systems of perception that also adds new aspects to the debate on orality and literality.
Culture, Gender and Gender Discrimination
Study conducted at Sundargarh, a tribal dominated District and Khordha, a Hindu dominated District of Orissa, India.
The Voice and the Will
A Wealth Of Field Experiences: Six Compact 'Subalern Studies', Essentially Of Destitue Rural Women, Put The Latter'S Capacity To Think, Speak Up And Act With Autonomy Under A New Light: Initial Unvillingness, Ambivalence Of Discourses And Practices, Protracted Processes Of Symbolic Reconstruction, Painstaking Initiation To Social Critique, Unsecured Conquests.
